At Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:12:27 +0900 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On 08/03/2011 06:41 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
But back to the original problem, why would anyone use ftp in this century when rsync or http(s) are so much easier to manage?
Do we have Kerberized rsync yet? Or Globus rsync?
If so... please post a link and... (^.^)
Is there a Kerberized ssh? Or a Kerberized ssh-agent?
Anyway, that sort of gets to the heart of just why we have several (not just two) ftp options. ftp, vsftp, Kerberized ftp, gridftp, etc... Its a pretty common tool and in some specific cases scripting the niche ones is necessary due to a lack of alternatives to match a given environment -- though if security isn't an issue (bringing in signed, public packages from a repo, say)... then yeah, rsync; though some people view it as "just one more thing to have to learn" and never discovering the benefits.
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